Too Little Too Late Congressman

The following letter to the editor appeared in the Wilkes-Barre Pa.
Citizens Voice and the Hazleton Pa. Standard Speaker newspapers
after 11th Congressional District Congressman Paul Kanjorski
(the man Mayor Lou will be running against tried defending his
record on illegal immigration issues.

Editor:
Congressman Paul Kanjorski’s recent claims that he has been in the fight against illegal immigration much longer than Hazleton mayor Lou Barletta prompted me to examine his voting record on this as well as some other issues.
And some of what I discovered is quite interesting.
The following are just a few examples of his votes on the following House Resolutions:
Bill Number: HR 5970-Continues to allow tax deductions for qualified tuition and related expenses by amending the date to 2007 (Sec. 201)Have kids in college? Like being able to deduct tuition costs from your federal income tax?Paul voted NO
Bill Number: HR 4890Sought to give the President the power of the line item veto.Paul voted NO (Can you say Pork Barrel Spending?)
Bill Number: HR 4579 A bill to cut taxes for married couples, farmers, students, and others, and to set aside a portion of the budget surplus for Social Security.
I’ll be honest. Anything that takes less of my paycheck in taxes is ok with me. Paul voted NO
Bill Number: HR 2436 A bill to adopt a substitute amendment that establishes a federal criminal offense for an individual whose assault on a pregnant woman interrupts or terminates the pregnancy.
Seems reasonable to me. Assault a pregnant woman, do some serious jail time.Paul voted NO
Bill Number: HR 3722 A bill that would require hospitals to provide information on undocumented immigrants seeking emergency medical care.
Seems simple. Illegal alien goes to the hospital for free medical care, and unless the hospital provides the Department of Homeland Security with citizenship and employment records, the hospital doesn’t receive reimbursement from the federal government. Would also have sought to make the employer of the illegal alien responsible for paying the bill.Paul voted NO

Bill Number: HR 4844 A bill that requires voters to provide a government-issued photo identification cards in order to vote.You know, like a drivers license. It’s hard to be an illegal alien voter without one.Paul voted NO

Now to be fair I must point out that Mr. Kanjorski did vote in favor of tightening border security, increasing the number of Border Control agents, and a few other items related to illegal immigration.
However, it is one thing to raise your hand and vote “me too” on a bill that you know will make you look good to the folks back home, and quite another to take a serious stand on an issue.
Perhaps why that is talk of Lou Barletta running against him has him trying to do damage control. Maybe he has visited the http://www.louforcongress/.com website.

But I can’t help but think that Mr. Kanjorski has been a member of Congress for 23 years, and NOW he is going to hop on board this issue?

Congressman, to use an old cliché, I’d ask you to put your money where your mouth is, but the last time you did that, you gave 10 million of our tax dollars to your nephews.

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